Judy Weishar is the most recent addition to the Department of Accounting and Law in the School of Business.

Weishar was an instructor in 1995 and a teaching assistant during 1991-92 and 1993-94 at the University of Arkansas, where she received her Ph.D. in 1995. She also served as the lead instructor for the first and second annual College of Business Accounting Career Awareness Program at Arkansas during the summers of 1994 and 1995, and worked as a research assistant to several senior research faculty.

Weishar received her bachelor's degree in 1983 and master's degree in 1988 at Northwest Missouri State University. Later, at Arkansas, she received the University Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for Excellence in Teaching during the spring of 1995 and the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award for 1992 and 1995.

"Professor Weishar has brought significant research and teaching experience to the faculty of Accounting and Law," said David Marcinko, chair of the department. "Her research on earnings management complements the ongoing empirical research of other faculty in financial accounting. She has both teaching and research interests in accounting information systems which fit the accounting department's long-term strategy of expansion in this specialty. She has brought valuable experiences to our efforts in curricular development and changes in the elementary courses at Albany."

In addition to academic presentations, working papers, workshops, and other research related activities, Weishar held private sector positions of accountant at Grand Canyon Airlines in 1985-86, and actuarial assistant at Scott, Tellier & Co., Inc., in 1983-85.

New to the full-time faculty of the School of Social Welfare this semester is Philip McCallion, whose specialty is the research on and addressing of human service intervention issues for the aged and people with disabilities.

McCallion has held the positions of postdoctoral research associate, co- principal investigator of several funded research projects, and consultant and adjunct faculty member in the School of Social Welfare's Ringel Institute of Gerontology from 1994 to 1996.

He was a visiting assistant professor of social work (1993-95) and adjunct faculty member (1993-94) at Skidmore College, and was a doctoral student and candidate in social welfare at the University beginning in 1990. He received his Ph.D. here in 1993. He received his bachelor's degree at the Queen's University of Belfast at Northern Ireland in 1977, and his master's degree there in 1981.

"Philip McCallion has knowledge of gerontology, disability, and cultural diversity," said Anne Fortune, interim dean of the School of Social Welfare. "He is also experienced in the management of social work agencies."

He is currently the co-principal investigator of a three-year project funded by the Alzheimer's Association examining and modeling the uses of formal services by persons with dementia and their caregivers. He is also co-principal on a State Office of Mental Health study on "Evaluation of Prepaid Mental Health Plans for Aging Consumers."

McCallion held private sector positions of executive director, assistant executive director of programmatic operations, and project director at the Training School at Vineland, N.J., from 1981 to 1990, and has written a number of publications, professional journal articles and conference papers.